Two years after Boitard’s death, a vastly expanded, 500-page version of his 1836/1838 pair of articles was published using the same title, Paris avant les hommes, and with the same time-traveling devil companion who takes Boitard back to prehistory.
Michael Main
If only we were still in the time of fairies and genies, maybe I could find one good enough to tell me what the world, or only France, or Paris, or even just the Tuileries Gardens was like, ten or twelve thousand years ago, more or less.

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  1. Paris avant les hommes by Pierre Boitard (Passard, Libraire-Editeur, 1861).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Pierre Boitard